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ing, to do justice and judgment. And, describing their acquiescence in the rule of Andros as an involuntary submission to an arbitrary power, they announce that, by the consent of the major part of the freemen, they have themselves resumed the Trumbull, i. 539. government. In prosecuting its claim in London, Whiting, the 1690. agent of Connecticut, was aided by all the influence which the religious sympathy of the Presbyterians could enlist for New England. The English corporations had bethe house of Hanover. But the object was not left out of mind. Lord Cornbury, who had in vain solicited money of Con- 1703. June. necticut, wrote home, that this vast continent would never be useful to England, till all the proprietary and Trumbull, i. 417. charter governments were brought under the crown. Quarry, also, reported to the lords of trade, that the roguery and villany of Connecticut were enough to fill a volume; and, appealing to the powerful sympathy in the English policy of